Korea Olympic Pause Delays Talk of US 'Bloody Nose' Strategy

25/01/2018

Notable is that the large-scale military parade is to be conducted one day before the opening of South Korea's Winter Olympic Games, in which North Korean athletes will take part owing to an inter-Korean agreement and an IOC approval.

Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday, Pompeo said under his tenure, about 40 percent of the decisions previously made at the director level are no longer made by him.

Beyond that, Kim will also seek to impress upon the USA and others in the region that it does indeed have the capability to strike in such a manner and inflict losses on the United States without a moment's notice, reportsthe Atlantic. The US announced its own, new measures on Wednesday, sanctioning nine entities, 16 people and six ships accused of helping Pyongyang develop nuclear weapons.

Trump fired Comey in May 2017 and initially said it was because he mishandled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

"Call it coercive, how Kim Jong Un is prepared to use these nuclear weapons", Pompeo said, describing the North Korean leader's ultimate goal as "reunification of the (Korean) Peninsula under his authority".

Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo warned that crackpot Kim will stop at nothing to build a devastating atomic arsenal - and could use it to impose his tyrannical rule on South Korea.

"The president is intent on delivering a solution through diplomatic means ..."

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"I think the day that we can't deliver that is the day that it starts getting pushed off", Pompeo noted.

While Pompeo spoke at length about the threats posed by North Korea, Iran and Russian Federation, he also discussed the threat of being outmaneuvered by cybercriminals who don't have to navigate through the same hierarchy that the US intelligence community does. We are counting on the fact that he'll see it.

Pompeo and other intelligence officials have said repeatedly that Pyongyang is likely just months away from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear armed missile.

Targeting a missile test site or intercepting a missile in flight is one option often discussed by military strike proponents, but critics point out that North Korea fires its ballistic missiles from mobile launchers that are hard to target in advance.

"He kept pushing us", Pompeo said, "what was the real layout, what was happening in the port, what was possible given the configuration of forces on the ground".

The audience's questions on Tuesday focused largely on North Korea, Iran and the other issues that tend to occupy the Washington national security establishment, including the fight against the Islamic State. There was no talk about whether the president's Twitter messages, such as calling North Korea's ruler, Kim Jong-un, "Little Rocket Man", affected the C.I.A.

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